Do they flake off? Sugar will crystallize like this in some fruits with the right conditions.
Any smell? Have you washed the pears? How firm are the pears?
If it’s mold it likely has a smell and / or would make a soft spot in the pear.
Depending on how the pears are grown it could be salt / minerals from water, or crop chemicals
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It’s not obviously crystalline and no smell that I notice. I will wash it and report back!
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Wax?
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I wondered that too, I just lumped it in with “processing”. I don’t even know if they still wax fruits. Some fruits naturally make their own wax.
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Washed with tap water and tried scraping off the white spots. Neither very successful although it did diminish the amount. My instinct is that it’s some sort of wax or other substance that was deposited in top of the pear. No smell that I can detect.
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How can I tell if my cheap cashmere sweaters are getting holes in them because they are cheap cashmere, or if it’s that I am storing/using them wrong? (I try to be very careful FWIW.)
I am thinking of buying a tiny loom to repair the holes with because it looks so fun and adorable and I get so many holes.
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Typically, the cheaper the clothing/fabric, the shorter the staple length of the fiber that went into it. Expensive fabrics generally use longer staple length fiber, which is harder to get, which makes it more expensive. (Why cheap sweaters of any sort pill so readily - the short length of the fibers just work themselves free so much more easily.)
TLDR I would expect it is the cheapness of them.
I think trying some visible mending might be quite fun!
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I buy my cashmere at Goodwill and I machine wash it at the end of winter. I get occasional holes and I just sew them up as soon as I see them. I feel like cashmere is pretty durable, but I’m more tolerant of wear and tear because I pay about $6/sweater.
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My mom has had covid for almost two weeks now. She’s still testing positive, does that mean she’s still contagious?
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When I had it I tested positive for 18 days. EIGHTEEN. The nurse said I was probably mildly contagious, although the protocol said I was good to go. I did not really feel like going anywhere more strenuous than up and down tye stairs, though.
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It seems like the recommendation is based more on symptoms than on continued positive tests. If she’s been asymptomatic for several days, it seems she is okay. I would keep masking and taking other precautions though, depending on your risk.
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Cherimoya?
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Or maybe soursop, but those are spikier and bigger.
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apparently there exists a cultivar of the two Atemoya - Wikipedia
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So clear as mud then which It is😂
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whatever it is, it’s yummy
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I haven’t had a custard apple in many years, probably 20 years. My kids have one in one of their little “first book of fruits” type books. It always makes me want to try one again 
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these mystery boxes are good for that, they give me things I’d never pay to try
I have a small handful of kumquats in this one too
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